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Recently, many developers have focused on SMP scalability while others have put an emphasis on new feature development and driver porting. The VM system was finally fine-grain locked all the way down to the pmap in late 2011, resulting in huge performance gains on many-cores machines. Further and more up to date information on the project goals and status are available on this website, and discussion of the project is possible on a variety of newsgroups, mailing lists and IRC.

DragonFly BSD was originally forked from FreeBSD 4.8 in June of 2003, by Matthew Dillon. The project is "the logical continuation of the FreeBSD 4.x series", as quoted in [Matthew Dillon's announcement](http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-July/006889.html).